No talk on the 3751, so here's a Mystery Bus for Ya All!!!

[GM0406]

We saw this today and still don't know what to make of it?  The windshield is not recessed in which tells me from my aging experience that she must be an old one.  I think all the later GM City Buses had windshields recessed.  So have at it here and tell us what this is.  I will try and contact the owner this week and confirm back here what I learn.  A real nice little coach.  Bill T.

[tekebird]

straight windshield should be prewar or just postwar.

give me a day or so and I will come up with the model

[GM0406]

Tekebird,  I was hoping you would make a guess on this one before I go and talk to the owner???  Bill T.

[tekebird]

yeah, well without doing some research, I don;t have a guess.

I'm not a huge transit knowledge base...and the bus cetratinly well predates me and would not have even been in service when I was a Embryo.

1940's trasit of some sort, GM of course.

Trouble is with the transits, any change they made  ended up being a new model number, in addition to the different lengths which were also done by model number

[tekebird]

OK, I'm not going to guess model number.....and there is a good chance the owner does not even know.

but I will give a not to exceed date of 1945

post 1945 all the GM transits had sloped windshields

[Charles Seaton]

Gotta go with Tekebird on this,


A shorty old look possible 32?? (32 passenger).  The rear end is interesting as the engine door appears to be in one piece.  All of the old looks I have seen (except for toro-flos) had two piece engine doors. 

[Dallas]

Looks to me like a 320X or a 36XX. The windshields look to me like they have been modified to have a flat face. I would guess that the engine compartment door has been modified also, since the center support wasn't structural.

My guess is somewhere in the 1946-1950 era. I doubt it is a prewar model, that would have brought it closer to the Yellow Coach model. This looks to me like it's an all GM model with owner modifications.

Of course, I've been wrong a lot before!

Dallas

[Charles Seaton]

Dallas,

Thought about the possibility of windshield modification also. Funny that it would be modified back to original design of initial old looks.

[Jeremy]

I reckon it's a Fisher Price Mk1. If you were to design a cute, baby-faced bus for a cartoon or a child's toy, this would be it.

Jeremy

[PADoug]

Thought maybe it was a 48 Brill...

[tekebird]

Definitley not a Brill